The Opelousas courier., 1887-02-26
THE BLUES"
A Malady from Which W.
all Suffer Occasionally.
Rem=dias Successfully Applied hv a Num-
Der of Sufferers.

Stu huoN oil Aooi eSo ! W"
from the worst attack of the blues thai
Tve had for six months2
"How did l get rid of it? Why,
tried my usual remedy, and I dare say
you will find it an amusing one. It's
just putting something tidy.
"Yes, / tidied up three of my office
drawers which were in confusion gave
them a thorough Strengthening out, not
a superficial one, you Understandable
I've felt better ever since. You new
tricl that plan, I supposed Well, the
next time you feel depressed just re-
member it. It's the best remedy
for low spirits I know OF. 1t
doesn't matter il the least what
you make tidy, anything will do, from
yourself to your coal-ceilar or your &C
count book, so long as it's thoroughly
done. You will find that the mere fact
of having put anything at all in spick
and spang order has an instantaneous
and astonishing moral effect. I've tried
it so often that l can speak from expert
encc. It was my wife who first sug-
cested the idea to me-she found it her.
self, | believe, in some old book of es-
says-and neither of us has ever known
it to fail with any ordinary attack of low
spirits. Wneaever my wife feels blue
she Immediately goes off to her store
room or china cupboard or linen closet,
routs out its contents, and puts every
thing in what she calls 'apple-pic order
If none of these places needs attention
she attacks the book-shclves, takes
down the books, dusts them, and ar
ranges them again carefully, or goes
through her music, binds the loose sheets,
mends the torn ones, and so on. As for
me, like most Chicago men, I'm usually
in such a drive that l have no time to
get blue, but occasionally there comes a
day when everything seems gloomy and
uncomfortable anil | haven't a
word to throw at a dog l suppose
every man has such experience. Well,
on these occasions | look about till l
find something or other that wants rut-
ting straight. Sometimes, like this
afternoon, it's a lot of papers that have
been lying about in confusion; some
times it's a business deal that's been
dragging along in an unsatisfactory way
and needs settling up. AS l said before,
it doesn't matter in the least hat you
put straight. It's the fact of putting it
SO that's important. Just you try it and
see"
The above remarks suggested to the re-
porter that different people might have
different methods of conqrerins 'thc
b'ues," and he set about investigating
the subject.
"What do I do when | feel low spirit
ed" said u board of trade magnate.
"Well, don't know hat | have any
well defined plan of operations, but l
believe, come to think of it, that l usu-
ally wash my hands. EYES," effectively,
'I'm sure l do. dare say I'm pecu-
liar in that way, but it's a fact that to
have my hands need washing is enough
Of itself to make ME feel blue. I wonder
sometimes what is making me feel so un-
comfortable and generally dissatified, and
| look at my hands and tina they're
not clean it's explained at once. If | 60
off,and wash them I come back feeling a
different man,
"Bluc2 Oh, yes, / get blue occasion
ally" said a wcll-known grocer, ssand /
find that the best remedy is a brisk walk.
Sometimes Iwalk up to the park and
back as fast as I a go, and usually
that I've parted with my depression
on the way. When my brother has IN
attack of low spirits he goes wei town
and takes a Turkish bath, then gets
aud has his hair cut (whether he
needs these operations or not), aud then
comes home and puts ona new suit of
He recommends this plan to all
his friends, and has a firm faith in it him.
self. Whenever we sec Jim looking par
clean and well trimmed we
know he's been fighting off a fit Of the
blues.
"Da / ever feel ~low-spirit,d Oh, yes
said a young woman in a white
hair tea-gown. "You want me
to tell you what / do under the circum-
have one remedy which new
IF fails. Il is putting on my very pref
lest gown and making myself look as
mice as | possibly can, ever if / stay in
NY own room all the afternoon or eve
hing and see no one. find that a shah
~ or unbecoraing gown is sure to make
j fit Of the blues worse, while an elabo
ate toilet sends ones spirit up sooner
han anything else. "-[Chicago News.
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